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The war in Ukraine is yet to approach its end, and the warring sides continue exchanging massive strikes in the rear regions. The Russian military is still holding the upper hand, pounding Ukrainian rear infrastructure every night, while repelling most of Ukrainian drone strikes.
On the night of February 23rd, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted another wave of strikes in the Russian rear regions. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, in total 20 Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed by air defense forces during the night, 10 more Ukrainian drones were destroyed in the morning. Ukrainian UAVs targeted the rear regions of Oryol, Lipetsk, Tula, Voronezh, some of them were intercepted in the border Belgorod and Kursk regions. No local sources reported any damage as a result of the attack.
In their turn, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation do not stop daily massive strikes on targets throughout Ukraine. Last night was not an exception. Accroding to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in total, 267 Russian drones and three ballistic missiles targeted Ukrainian territory during the night. This is almost twice more than the numbers provided by the Ukrainian military in recent days. The air defense forces of Ukraine allegedly destroyed 138 UAVs, 119 drones miraculously disappeared. The official reports of the Ukrainian military are again refuted by the damage confirmed in different regions.
The Ukrainian military confirmed some damage in the Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Poltava, Kiev and Zaporozhie regions, providing more details. In fact, Russian strikes destroyed targets in more areas across the country. Russian strikes were recorded in the following regions:
- Kharkiv
- Sumy
- Odessa
- Zaporozhie
- Kherson
- Chernihiv
- Zhitomir
- Kiev, Bucha, Brovary
- Krivy Rih in the Dnepropetrovsk region
- Uman in the Cherkassy region
- Mirgorod in the Poltava region
- Starokonstantinov in the Khmelnitsk region.
Moreover, Ukraine came under another combined attack, together with drones, Russian forces launched Iskander and Smerch missiles.
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In the evening of February 22nd, Russian Iskander-M missiles destroyed a military point of temporary deployment of Ukrainian forces and foreign military instructors hidden in the Park House hotel in Krivy Rih. Ukrainians and NATO used the civilian facility to hide there their military headquarters, coordination center and for the rest of Ukrainian officers and military instructors from NATO. Together with the hotel, the Priroda restaurant located nearby was destroyed. According to Russian monitoring sources, the strike was launched during the meeting of Ukrainian officers with foreign military instructors. Obviously, Ukraine rushed to blame Russia for another alleged attack on civilians.
The southern city of Odessa came under another massive attack and the intensity of Russian strikes keeps growing. About 15 Russian strikes were recorded at the local port and other areas. A large fire broke out in the industrial zone in Odessa. According to local reports, a large railway junction of Akkanzha located in the village of Velikodolinkse suffered heavy damage. The railway station is used for transfer of military equipment from Ukrainian ports.
At least six Russian strikes were reported in the capital of Ukraine. The mayor of Kiev confirmed the attack and some damage in the city. Fires broke out in the Pechersky, Svyatoshinsky, Goloseevsky districts.
According to local reports, Russian strikes destroyed large military depots located on the outskirts of Zhitomir. The depots belonged to the Ukrainian Nova Post private postal company. Its facilities have been used by the Ukrainian military since the very beginning of the Russian Special Military Operation.
Launching massive strikes in the strategic rear of the enemy, Russian forces are heavily pounding Ukrainian positions in the eastern war-torn regions. Last night, they launched four missiles with a high-explosive warhead from the Smerch MLRS at the military parking lot in Konstantinovka. The armored vehicles from the US, Germany and military equipment from NATO were destroyed. The vehicles belonged to the Lyut special forces unit.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have no Ukrainian weapons left in service. The Ukrainian military is fully equipped by NATO. There much more military vehicles from the US and European countries is service, but even so the Ukrainian army is losing this war.
